Stop The Squeal

No, Trump, you did not “win Georgia big.” You did not “win Pennsylvania big.” Biden defeated you in PA by more votes than your margin over Clinton, and you were happy to claim that victory. You lost by more than 7,000,000 votes. You are the first elected president in 88 years to lose to a challenger in an election without a strong third-party candidate. You are the most corrupt and corrosive leader that this country has ever seen. Stop whining. Stop inciting division and violence, pack up your golf clubs, and go home. It’s time for the nation to heal, and your pathetic, self-serving antics are not helping.

Of Courts And Kings

If courts are going to decide the outcome of elections, why bother holding the election in the first place? Why waste time and effort registering voters, printing ballots, hiring poll workers, and tabulating and certifying the results? Just put the two candidates in front of a panel of judges and have them decide who the winner is.

Of course, if the judges picked Biden over Trump in this most recent election, mobs of angry fascists would show up at their houses. Fascist don’t really want the courts to decide who wins any more than they want the voters to decide who wins. They simply want to ensure that their candidate comes out on top. The courts are just a convenient tool when the popular vote doesn’t go they way they want it to.

So, forget about standing in line to vote in the next election. Use that time to go for a nice walk. Use a copy of the Constitution to clean up after your dog. If the will of the people no longer decides our political future, Jeffersonian democracy is dead. We will have ended up back where we started, ruled by a greedy, lawless king.

Chances

Forget about the chances you’ve missed. Prepare for the ones that are coming.

Making Progress

We make progress when we refuse to make excuses.

Happy Election Holidays

Conservatives direct outrage at the election! Starbucks cups breathe sigh of relief!

Big Skills

To be adept at big skills, master the small ones.

December 7, 2020

I watched a lot of World War I movies when I was a kid. Films that were made during and just after the war were still popular on television, and the studios continued to make new ones.

From the perspective of a child, the war seemed like something that had happened in the distant past, but it hadn’t been that long at all. I was born less than nineteen years after the attack on Pearl Harbor. To put that time frame in perspective, it’s been more than nineteen years since the 9/11 attacks.

The Great War was still fresh in the minds of anyone old enough to have lived through it. Everyone had at least one family member who served in the war. Every American of my parents’ generation remembered the hardships, the rationing, the news from abroad. The war touched every aspect of life.

By the time I became aware of WWII, a lot had happened, the Cold War, the Korean War, the dawn of the Space Age. It’s natural for children to lack an awareness of history, especially when current times are changing rapidly. I was an adult before I was able to appreciate how short a time had passed between my own life and the greatest conflict in human history.

Thanks to all who served an sacrificed in the defense of liberty. Thanks to all who fought and died to defeat the greatest threat that humanity has every thrust upon itself.

December 7, 2020

National Leadership In The Era Of The Pandemic

On Wednesday of this week, Covid-19 killed more people in the US than the 9/11 attacks. That is a staggering one-day death toll, and yesterday was even worse. Hospitalizations continue to rise. Deaths will follow.

What is Trump doing about it?

- National mask mandate? No

- Expanded testing and tracing? No

- Defense Production Act to restock PPE supplies? No

- Public addresses to encourage social distancing? No

- Economic relief for workers and businesses? No

- Extension of unemployment benefits? No

- Financial support to hospitals? No

- Financial support to school districts? No

- Financial support to food banks? No

- National vaccination strategy? No

- Ranting about the election? Yes

- Pardoning criminals? Yes

- Firing people and settling scores? Yes

- Baseless allegations of fraud? Yes

- Weekly golf trips? Yes

- Scamming supporters with a deceitful ‘election fund’ that enriches him personally? Yes

Locked Box

Yes

I’m still shocked

But

Those feelings are

Locked

In a box

On a shelf

In an old dusty cabin

Deep in the woods

In a place 

That nobody knows

I try to do mostly positive things

While the cold wind blows

And the lock

On that box

Rusts shut

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